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Atul Gawande is a surgical resident in Boston and staff writer on medicine and science for The New Yorker. A former Rhodes scholar, he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.

Author's Note

Introduction

Fallibility

Education of a Knife

The Computer and the Hernia Factory

When Doctors Make Mistakes

Nine Thousand Surgeons

When Good Doctors Go Bad

Mystery

Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth

The Pain Perplex

A Queasy Feeling

Crimson Tide

The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating

Uncertainty

Final Cut

The Dead Baby Mystery

Whose Body Is It, Anyway?

The Case of the Red Leg

Notes on Sources

Acknowledgments

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